Microsoft wants OneDrive to be your one and only

Microsoft's newly rebadged cloud storage service OneDrive has officially
launched today. The service, formerly known as SkyDrive had to change its name after losing a lawsuit to British
broadcaster Sky last year.

Microsoft promises that OneDrive will be easier to use than other cloud
storage systems, most of which it says have until now been "pretty
hard to use". The emphasis of OneDrive will be on making it simple
to keep everything all together in one place (one love, OneDrive,
and so on and so forth). As such, it's rolling out several new
features, the most interesting of which is camera backup for
Android and the ability to share and view photos just as easily as
videos.

Microsoft is also adding new ways for you to top up the 7GB of
free storage that all users receive as standard. If you refer
friends to the service you can earn up to 5GB extra "in 500MB
increments", presumably meaning that you can get an extra 500GB for
each friend that accepts an invite. If you choose to use OneDrive's
camera backup feature you'll also receive an extra 3GB of storage
for free.

OneDrive is baked in to pretty much all Microsoft software and
devices, including Windows, Windows Phone, Office and Xbox,
offering a level of integration that can be matched by few other
cloud services. The option to make OneDrive your default storage
location for anything saved using any of these products is one of
the most attractive features of the service. This is automatically
switched on for Office, making it easy to work seamlessly even if
you're moving between different devices, or are working on a
document with others simultaneously.

OneDrive compatibility isn't just restricted to Microsoft
products though -- you can also use it in conjunction with any
Apple or Android device, which is particularly useful if the
technology you own doesn't all belong to a single ecosystem. It's
likely that if you're primarily an Android user, you'll probably
already using Google Drive and Apple users will already be using
iCloud. It's highly likely that those who use one cloud service
will also use at least one other alongside it -- Dropbox perhaps.
But to try and persuade you that you really do only need one
service, Microsoft has provided you with this handy
comparison chart that takes into account things like free
storage capacity and features.

You can start using OneDrive from today, and if you previously
used SkyDrive, you will now find yourself redirected to the new
service with all your stored files perfectly in tact.